Graduate Course Offerings
Women's Studies (WMST)

5100 TOPICS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES: (SUBTITLED) (2-3 credits)
Diverse topics encompass an international range of women's experiences and women's
lives and may include sources from literature, law, history, myth-religion, psychology,
sociology, philosophy and theology, and the visual arts. Past topics include:
Myths and Spirituality; Mother, Daughter, Self; Writing Women's Lives; Art, Erotica,
and Pornography in American Culture; Reproductive Freedom; Indigenous Women's
Issues. May be retaken for credit under different subtitles.

5190 FEMINIST THEORIES AND PRACTICE (3
credits) A critical examination of the main currents in contemporary
feminist thought. Designed to explore systems of ideas which explain
the nature and causes of women's condition in society. As a capstone
activity, each student will produce an original piece of work, in the
student's own discipline, which will focus on a women's issue and
will utilize a feminist perspective and feminist theory as the
conceptual framework for research and analysis.